Betty Toons

Betty Toons
Genre	Animated series Comedy
Created by	Fernando Gaitán
Based on	Yo soy Betty, la fea by Fernando Gaitán
Directed by	Hernan A. Zajec Maribel Echeverri
Music by	Juancho Pulido (original)
Country of origin	Colombia
Original language	Spanish
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	60
Production
Producers	María del Pilar Fernández Raúl Tinjacá
Production locations	Bogotá, Colombia
Editor	Edwin Lopez
Production company	Conexión Creativa
Original release
Network	RCN Televisión
Release	2002
Related
Yo soy Betty, la fea (original series)

Betty Toons is a Colombian animated television series was produced by RCN Televisión in 2002, based on Fernando Gaitán's soap opera Yo soy Betty, la fea, retrofitting all the characters to make them children living in a primary school. After the great success of the transmission of this telenovela in 1999 until 2001, the idea of the production of the animated series by RCN Televisión came about. The series lasted a year on the air.

The voice direction was done by Hernán Zajec and Maribel Echeverría. The musical direction was by Juancho Pulido and the logistics were in charge with Paula Arenas.

In the United States, Betty Toons aired on Telefutura from 2004–2008 in Spanish.

The cartoon version recreates the era of the protagonists in childhood, when everyone attends the same school, including Beatriz Pinzón or Betty, Armando Mendoza, "La Peliteñida", Marcela Valencia, the teacher Gutierrez, who sometimes uses English words when he is talking.

This is the first time that a Colombian animated series is aired on Cartoon Network in Latin America.

Plot

One day a girl dressed as Betty goes to school who gets made fun of for her looks, The series is very similar to the original telenovela but they go to school and Armando does not work at EcoModa yet. Hugo Lombardi is not a character in this version due to his personality being not suitable for children. Most characters from Yo Soy Betty la fea are in Betty Toons but there are also new characters, like the teacher Professor Gutierrez. The series ends with Betty being an exchange student and moves to France, in the airplane she meets a new boy

Voice cast and characters

• Alejandra Botero as Beatriz "Betty" Aurora Pinzón Solano.
• Andrés López as Nicolas Mora; Daniel Valencia; Freddy
• Alberto León Jaramillo as Professor Gutiérrez
• Juan Gaviria as Armando Mendoza
• Marcela Jimenez as Marcela Valencia
• Juliana Botero as Patricia Fernández
• Marta Noriega as Mario Calderón
• Luz Amparo Álvarez as Aura María Fuentes; Sofía López
• Martha Araujo as Bertha Muñoz; Julia Solano de Pinzón
• José Ordóñez as Hermes Pinzón
• Martha Ginneth Rincón as Sandra Patiño
• Giovanna Bernal as Mariana Valdés
• María Mercedes Murillo as Doña Nicolasa

External links

• Betty Toons at IMDb